[jsword-devel] Alias mechanism for translations.

[peter]

DM Smith wrote:
> I'm working on simplifying the effort required for translating  
> BibleDesktop.
> 
> At Peter's request, I'm almost done with an effort to define aliases,  
> which will greatly simplify translation. I should be checking it in a  
> bit later today or perhaps tomorrow.

This is brilliant. Thanks!

> 
> The fundamental idea behind it is to have a dictionary of common text  
> (a word or short phrase) that is useful in more than one place. For  
> example, "OK", "Yes" and "No" are used all over the place.
> 
> In the default properties file, say Desktop.properties
> Go.Name=Alias.Go
> would indicate that the action values for Go can be found in the alias  
> dictionary, appropriately internationalized.
> 
> Then in Desktop_de.properties (and all the other translations of  
> Desktop.properties), Go.Name and Go.Mnemonic would be deleted.
> 
> This would appear to assume that there is a one to one mapping between  
> all uses of Go in English and the translation, but it doesn't.
> 
> Any value in the translated property file would take precedence over  
> the corresponding value in the alias property file.
> 
> In Him,
> 	DM
> 
> 
> 
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